Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [adv] for the sake " in BNC.
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| 1 | The heavens were studied not only for omens but also for the sake of the calendar . |
| 2 | Homeworkers , who engaged in a wide variety of trades from matchbox-making to furpulling , did indeed suffer disproportionately from disease , particularly tuberculosis , and regulation was instigated not merely for the protection of the workers but also for the sake of the whole community . |
| 3 | Noting that the Marxist classics attribute great importance to the possibility of replacing officials , Hegedus argues that ‘ for the most part , administration involves the sort of functions where a planned rotation of official personnel is expedient not only for the sake of opposing bureaucratic tendencies but also for the sake of greater efficiency ’ . |
| 4 | Her mother had reacted to the subject in a predictable way , and had expatiated at some length about the absurdity of taking a dress all the way to Paris and back for the sake of one evening 's amusement , but in the end she had consented to do something about it . |
| 5 | One is left wondering precisely how much Ramsay was tempted , in his later style and purely for the sake of pictorial gracefulness ( not , of course , to please his sitters ) , to improve upon what he saw before him . |